https://soundcloud.com/user-324830453/women-and-the-crusades-episode-2
Our podcast will discuss the general and assumed role of women during the crusades era. In addition, we dig into more into detail on few women who proved to go above and beyond the general assumption. More specifically in the roles of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Shajar Al-Durr, and Anna Komnene.
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I loved the music in the background, it was not distracting to the voices. The accent was clever and it lended to a credible interview style with experts.
Your use of different voices for each section was really great for breaking up the podcast and making it engaging. I like that you gave a quick recap at the end to bring all of the information together.
First the accent was an amazing quirky addition to the podcast. That along with the music kept the delivery of your information fun and upbeat. The information itself was very interesting. Women’s role were often not recorded, so having so much information presented on three very different women during the crusades was impressive. Over all great job!
I found this podcast fun and engaging and really enjoyed learning about the topic some more. My only critique would be that at certain parts the music drowns out the speaker.
I loved the multiple dramatic music soundtracks. Your descriptions of women during the crusades were well detailed. Very informative.
I loved your topic it was so much different than the others, the topic was super interesting because you don’t often hear about the women in crusades and is usually a male dominant war. The music was also refreshing. Nice work!
I liked how in the podcast you took the approach of having expertise come in a talk about a particular woman during the Crusades. I also liked how you did a recap at the end to relate all the information presented. Over all, good podcast!
The final closure really helped cement information, it felt a little like the end of scrubs wrapping up everything in an easy to summarize bow.